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Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy in the fellow eye 5 years after presentation of punctate inner choroidopathy

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Abstract

Background

There has been argument about the relationship between posterior inner choroidopathy (PIC) and acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR).

Method

Case study.

Results

A 26-year-old woman was diagnosed as having PIC in the right eye in 1998. Multiple yellow–white lesions in the inner choroid and retina were found in the posterior pole of her right eye and were treated with corticosteroid therapy. In 2003, she was referred to us complaining of visual field defect in the left eye. By means of electroretinographic and static perimetric analyses, she was diagnosed as having AZOOR in the left eye.

Conclusion

This case presents indirect evidence that PIC and AZOOR may have some common etiologic or pathogenic background.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori, 036–8562, Japan

    Kurenai Taira, Mitsuru Nakazawa & Yoshiko Takano

  2. Ota Eye Clinic, Hirosaki, Japan

    Takuya Ota

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  1. Kurenai Taira
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Correspondence to Mitsuru Nakazawa.

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Taira, K., Nakazawa, M., Takano, Y. et al. Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy in the fellow eye 5 years after presentation of punctate inner choroidopathy. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmo 244, 880–882 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-005-0172-7

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